Cheap Eats

A guide to the long lines, often-kooky concepts, and oodles of noodles.

How to tell a trapizzino from a tramezzino and a panzerotto from a fried pizza.

What had long been the sole province of boardwalk stands and Dairy Queens has trickled up to boutique bakeries and major restaurant groups.

How do you get celebrity chefs’ cooking at a discount? Wake up early and eat breakfast at one of their new casual, all-day canteens.

The Underground Gourmet’s favorite places to have opened in the past year, serving everything from Texas breakfast tacos to new-wave Filipino takeout.

Exquisite seafood doesn’t have to break the bank.

These Japanese specialties are proliferating at New York’s newest izakayas and Asian-inflected fast-food joints.

Budget eating at City Kitchen, Hudson Eats, Vendy Plaza, and more.

Pinch pennies by getting up early, showing restraint, and eating your greens.

Nine delicious restaurants that cater to expats but welcome anyone with an appetite.

They’re healthful, filling, and infinitely customizable, a blank canvas for inventive chefs and fast-casual chains alike.

Sky-high beef prices and the enduring sandwich craze have laid the groundwork for a new breed of birds on buns.

From hyperseasonal Anglo-Indian curry and home-style Vietnamese to French-bread pizza and old-school spinach pies, all under $25.

The Underground Gourmet explains just what it takes to actually rank 101 restaurants.

From a fried-chicken bánh mì to a lamb-sausage gyro.

World-class Welsh rarebit and deep-fried Dogfish Head-infused Hop-Pickles.

Where to go for your whole-grain, big-salad, açai-bowl fix.

From a falafel-free falafel to a deep-fried chicken thigh that will make you swear off McNuggets forever.

All restaurants that have opened since 2006, the last time we attempted this ludicrous gut-busting task.

For two weeks only.